Samantha Spiro
The hapless Stuart struggles between his new family and ex-wife, who lives across the road
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Actors: Lee Mack, Patrick Baladi, Ben Palmer, David Crow, Oliver Maltman
Tracey Ullman is back on BBC One with Tracey Breaks The News, a political and topical offering from the award-winning actress, impressionist and comedian. The half-hour special will be filmed close to transmission and broadcast in the aftermath of the general election.
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Actors: Tracey Ullman, Tony Gardner, Laurence Howarth, Laurence Rickard, Sue Elliott-Nichols
TV presenter Simon Amstell plays a version of himself in Grandma's House, a new six-part comedy written by Simon and his long-term collaborator Dan Swimer. The series stars Simon Amstell as a TV presenter who is quitting his job to try to do something more meaningful with his life. Each episode is set at Grandma's house, where Simon's family regularly congregate to catch up. Everything happens under the watchful eye of Grandma, who is desperate to see everything going well.
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Actors: Simon Amstell, Rebecca Front, Linda Bassett, Geoffrey Hutchings, James Smith
It follows the exploits of Lisa, an impulsive and free-spirited aspiring illustrator whose questions over her daughter’s future start keeping her up at night, and the socially anxious yet gifted journalist Danny. The pair have no secrets, except their feelings for each other, and while the world sleeps they spend their long nights talking despite never meeting.
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Actors: Antonia Thomas, Craig Roberts, Blake Harrison, Lois Chimimba, Luke Fetherston
A London MIT investigates a number of gruesome murders.
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Actors: Diane Parish, Lindsey Coulson, Samantha Spiro, Steven Pacey, Andrew Somerville
Insecure Otis has all the answers when it comes to sex advice, thanks to his therapist mother. So rebel Maeve proposes a school sex-therapy clinic.
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Actors: Alistair Petrie, Sami Outalbali, Samantha Spiro, Chaneil Kular, Simone Ashley
Detective Kat Donovan gets caught up in a dark conspiracy after unexpectedly encountering an old flame online. Based on Harlan Coben's Novel.
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Actors: Rosalind Eleazar, Ashley Walters, Jessica Plummer, Richard Armitage, Lenny Henry
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
Director: James Hawes
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp
England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to imagine the disproportionate consequences that such a selfless act will cause.
Director: Terry Loane
Actors: Ruth Bradley, Pippa Haywood, Dean Andrews, Bebe Cave, Blake Harrison
Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look after him, he is moved to Twilight Towers, an old people's home. It soon becomes clear that Miss Dandy is running Twilight Towers for her own ulterior motives, and it is up to Grandpa and grandson Jack to make a daring escape. Failure could have the direst of consequences, but success will give Grandpa a final chance to relive his past and take to the sky once again in his beloved Spitfire.
Director: Elliot Hegarty
Actors: Tom Courtenay, Kit Connor, Jennifer Saunders, David Walliams, Samantha Spiro
During the Battle of Waterloo, a soldier's wife searches for her missing husband in the nearby forest and must resort to extraordinary measures to survive.
Director: Emma Moffat
Actors: Jessie Buckley, Sophia Brown, Alistair Petrie, Samantha Spiro, Philippe Spall
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Director: Simon Amstell
Actors: Simon Amstell, Linda Bassett, Martin Freeman, Eileen Atkins, Joanna Lumley
A reworking of the 14th century Arthurian medieval poem as an animated film styled to look like stain glass windows.
Director: Tim Fernee
Actors: James D'Arcy, Anton Lesser, Samantha Spiro, Ronan Vibert
When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; then, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems to threaten his tyrant’s crown.
Director: Eve Best
Actors: Joseph Millson, Samantha Spiro, Billy Boyd, Finty Williams, Bette Bourne
The story follows Maria - a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident Michael inspires her to revisit her childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.
Director: Luna Carmoon
Actors: Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires, Lily-Beau Leach, Deba Hekmat
The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe. While the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy.
Director: Ari Folman
Actors: Emily Carey, Ruby Stokes, Sebastian Croft, Ralph Prosser, Michael Maloney
Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.
Director: Terry Johnson
Actors: Samantha Spiro, Adam Godley, Geoffrey Hutchings, David McAlister, Steve Speirs
Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew introduces one of theatre’s great screwball double-acts, a couple hell-bent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to the play’s equivocal and controversial conclusion.
Director: Toby Frow
Actors: Jamie Beamish, Michael Bertenshaw, Sarah MacRae, Simon Day, Pearce Quigley
Gary attempts to buy a second-hand car. What should be a straightforward task is turned into something of a quest by various people, including dodgy East End car dealer Perry, Perry's taxi-driver dad, a garage owner called Derek, Perry's wife Debbie and couple of twins.
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Eddie Marsan, Sam Kelly, Samantha Spiro, Lee Ingleby, Nichole Bird
This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.
Director: Dominic Leclerc
Actors: Jaime Winstone, Samantha Spiro, Nick Moran, Leanne Best, Zoë Wanamaker
Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet Britain" where "the natives are revolting - quite literally". Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
Director: Dominic Brigstocke
Actors: Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, Kate Nash, Nick Frost, Craig Roberts
With the help of her therapist, Antonia must find out why she has developed an extreme obsession with circles before it's too late.
Director: Emma Moffat
Actors: Antonia Thomas, Samantha Spiro, William Beresford Davies, Marie-Claire Chappet
Pansy is a woman tormented by anger and depression, hypersensitive to the slightest possible offence and ever ready to fly off the handle. She criticises her husband and their adult son so relentlessly that neither bothers to argue with her. She picks fights with strangers and sales clerks and enumerates the world's countless flaws to anyone who will listen, especially her cheerful sister Chantelle, who, despite their clashing temperaments, might be the only person still capable of sympathising with her.
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson